{"product_id":"if-babel-had-a-form-translating-equivalence-in-the-twentieth-century-transpacific-hardback-9781531500184","title":"If Babel Had a Form; Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific (Hardback) 9781531500184","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIf Babel Had a Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTranslating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTze-Yin Teo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531500184\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,\" writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, \"renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.\" \u003ci\u003eIf Babel Had a Form\u003c\/i\u003e asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentieth-century intersections of China and Asia with the United States, translations did more than communicate meaning across politicized and racializing differences of language and nation. Transpacific translation breached the regulative protocols that created those very differences of human value and cultural meaning. The result, Tze-Yin Teo argues, saw translators cleaving to the sounds and shapes of poetry to imagine a translingual \"likeness of form\" but not of meaning or kind.\u003cbr\u003e At stake in this form without meaning is a startling new task of equivalence. As a concept, equivalence has been rejected for its colonizing epistemology of value, naming a broken promise of translation and false premise of comparison. Yet the writers studied in this book veered from those ways of knowing to theorize a \u003ci\u003epoetic\u003c\/i\u003e equivalence: negating the colonial foundations of the concept, they ignited aporias of meaning into flashpoints for a radical literary translation. The book's transpacific readings glean those forms of equivalence from the writing of Fenollosa, the vernacular experiments of Boxer Scholar Hu Shi, the trilingual musings of Shanghai-born Los Angeles novelist Eileen Chang, the minor work of the Bay Area Korean American transmedial artist Theresa Cha, and a post-Tiananmen elegy by the exiled dissident Yang Lian. The conclusion returns to the deconstructive genealogy of recent debates on translation and untranslatability, displacing the axiom of radical alterity for a no less radical equivalence that remains—\u003ci\u003epace\u003c\/i\u003e Fenollosa—far from easy or exceptional.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eIf Babel Had a Form\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the demanding force of even the slightest sameness entangled in the translator's work of remaking our differences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Translation, Transliteration, and Transcription\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Equivalence beyond Value   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eTranspacific Abstraction   31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eSound Translation: Eileen Chang   67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eConcrete Translation: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha   95\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eTranslingual Erasure: Yang Lian   126\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: If Babel Had a Form   151\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  165\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorks Cited \u003c\/i\u003e  205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  219\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619261772056,"sku":"9781531500184","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/if-babel-had-a-form-translating-equivalence-in-the-twentieth-century-transpacific-hardback-9781531500184","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}